France wanted to send in a peacekeeping force, but got no support from America or Britain.
Ireland also punches above its weight internationally when it comes to humanitarian assistance, peacekeeping.
It is already part of the United Nations force in Haiti its first significant peacekeeping role.
But it doesn't appear as if the peacekeeping team is going to arrive anytime soon.
The meeting had been called to discuss Thailand's role in the peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan.
Mr. JON ALTERMAN (Center for Strategic and International Studies): I've seen peacekeeping forces work.
An international peacekeeping force will likely be needed to ensure against reprisals and continuing communal violence.
The Clinton administration cannot create such a tripwire simply by entering into a trilateral peacekeeping arrangement.
Such an alliance, however, cannot be built on a trilateral peacekeeping agreement including Syria.
European Union security chief Javier Solana predicted that NATO would agree to a peacekeeping role.
's peacekeeping division in New York saw the Congo mission as ill-equipped to prevent such violence.
Is this because previous peacekeeping operations, certainly there in southern Lebanon, haven't been too successful?
Brahimi said violence must stop and "strong observation" by a peacekeeping mission would be key.
Guinea will send troops to join a peacekeeping force in Somalia, the African Union has said.
And, in Kenton, Ohio, the first American killed in the Bosnian peacekeeping mission was buried Tuesday.
If the Sudanese government does not approve this peacekeeping force quickly, the United Nations must act.
In 1994 the U.S. should have forcefully told the U.N. to beef up its peacekeeping forces.
The soldiers will join a 250-strong unarmed peacekeeping mission in the UN buffer zone.
NATO's peacekeeping KFOR force has increased patrols on the Kosovo side of the border.
France would like the African-led mission to become a UN peacekeeping operation as soon as possible.
It's from this building that tens of thousands of field-based peacekeeping troops get their direction.
Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Herve Ladsous, who spoke as deaths mounted across the country.
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NATO, for its part, insists on forming the main component of any peacekeeping force.
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In 1984, the last U.S. Marines in the multinational peacekeeping force in Lebanon left Beirut.
This week, France asked the United Nations Security Council to approve a peacekeeping force for Mali.
He also said he backed the idea of sending a UN peacekeeping force to Mali.
Plans to dispatch a regional peacekeeping force have yet to be put into place.
Some German troops from the NATO defence alliance's peacekeeping force in Afghanistan were also being sent.
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The EU is the greatest, most successful peacekeeping project the world has ever seen.
French troops heading a European Union peacekeeping mission were poised to bolster the president if required.
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